Went Vegan 3 days after meeting someone.
For context, we've been together 11 months. Yeah, not long, but stay with me here.
I had guilt when I ate meat. I saw slaughterhouse footage and, yeah, scared the holy hell out of me, but I was in denial for a long time thinking they can't all be that awful. (They are).
Few years ago, my best friend whose brother works on a bison ranch offered for me to slaughter a bison and if I did I got to keep everything to eat for free. This is a *lot* of free food for a meat eater. Like, thousands upon thousands. And in the end... I didn't even bother going to the ranch.
I figured that if I had the opportunity to take an animals life, use everything to sustain myself, but couldn't do it, I lost the right to eat meat forever. So, I didn't do it, but kept eating meat. Yes, that does make me a hypocrite at the time.
11 months ago, I met a wonderful woman. Absolutely phenomenal. There are too many reasons to list- neither of us are oerfect, but she is *damn* close. She also has been vegan for 10 years now. She said if I was to be with her long term, I couldn't cook meat in the house. I said that was fair. She said she would like me to at least try to be vegan, or at the very least try the variety of foods. Yeah, right, how many replacement options can there be? (All of them, actually) She said i could take a year to gradually go vegan if i had it in me.
So I took it a step further.
3 days in, went vegan. Never looked back. I've maintained a healthy weight, no more chronic nausea, my IBS has all but disappeared, I have zero guilt eating anything or buying anything (no animal products anymore for this guy), and the variety of food is legitimately insane. How the hell do more people not know about this?? And tofu? Holy hell, it can be almost anything. Its silly.
I hope I marry this woman. I really do. But if for some reason we don't work out, im vegan for life. No way in hell am I ever going back.
Just wanted to share my experience with you all. I used to judge you, make fun of you, laugh at you, and I could not have been more wrong. You're all stars in my book.